Translator for printing-telegraph systems.



J B. WRIGHT. TRANSLATOR FOR PRlNTlNG, TELEGRAPH SYSTEMS.

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TRANSLATOR FOR PRINTING TELEGRAPH SYSTEMS. APPLICATION FILBDIAUGJZ. 1913.

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TRANSLATOR FOR PRINTING TELEGRAPH SYSTEMS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 22. 1913.

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JOHN WRIGHT, oENEW voIiK, N. Y., nsstelvon 'ro WR-IGHT- TEnEGRAPHI-c grYrE WRITER. COMPANY, or NEwYoRK, N. Y'., A CORPORATION c t- ARE;

'r'RANsLA'ToR For. PRINTINGEELEGRAPH sYs'rE'nis.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that L-JOHN Tamer, a

citizen of the United States, residing at New York, city, county, and State of New York,

have invented certain new and useful 1 g provementsv in. Translators for Printing- Telegraph Systems, of. which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

In a patent granted to me on March 17 1914:, No. 1,09O,365, I have s'hown-and'de- .scribed a printing telegraph receiving instrument, in which "certain operations are performed by mechanisms which are noninterfering and hence capable-of simultane- For example,'lthe type wheel,

ous action, by one electrically controlled mechanism, may be rotated about "its axis to bring a given vertical columnof characters into register with the printing 'positiom -at the same time that, by another it shifted in line with its axis -to bring to printing position a'given horizontal r0W of characters.-

This instrument, which is now referred to merelylas typical of a class to which my present invention isapplicablefcontains a plurality of circuits local to itself by the completion of one or of several of whicheither' successively or. simultaneously, the

various operations of bringing any given character on the type :w'heel 'into register, printing, ,spacing, paper feeding and the like, are effected.

I i The invention, subjectcfmy present application, is animprovement' in devices which may be defined-as' translators,and

' which comprise certain line cohtrolled;cir-

cuits operating through suitable electromagnetic, devices to select and operate that or those levers, or their'equivalents, which, by the control of the properreceiver cir-j cuits,.ivill effect theprinting of a character or' any other operation in such a receiver that corresponds to the number or. character of the impulses constituting'a signal sent over the line-t0theetranslator.

In another patent granted to me on March 17, 1914, No. 1,090,367, I have shown a translatorv designed for this purpose, in'

which the linecontrolled circuits, kor those receiving impulses transmitted over'the line,

' cperate'throughthe instrumentalitv of selecting devices to move orishifta different lever for each combination of impulses constituting a signal. But inasmuch as certain of such combinations correspondto charac- Specification of Letters Patent.

'whereas in the translator ofmy previous te-rs on the type wheel :of the receiver, th

printing of which involves the simultaneous completionof two receiver circuits, .som of tion-of two receiver circ'uitsi Inthis way the number of leversfandjsizeof the i'nstru p I I atented Dec. 1; Application filed August 22, 1913.' Serial No. 786,081. 4

'- the levers of the translator were required to I complete two receiving circuits and others 66 but one, since with theiconstruction-emplayed, but one lever was operated by'each;

ment as a whole are 'v'erymuch reduced, for; c

applicationwhiehwas idesig'nedto operate with a receiver inwhich the type wheel was rotated four. "steps and lifted. 1 four steps from its normalposition, twenty-four levers \\'er e required for all possible "combinations involved in its operationalone, only'eight of such levers are needed tdaccdmPlish the same result in'rn'y-improved device.

.In' addition to the features- 0f' construc'- tion by wvhich this result issecured, Ihave made other improvements in-the detailsof construction of the apparatus, the/"nature of description. T 'The means by which I.=have'ac complished which will appear from the accompanying the'above and the other results hereinafter referred .to are illustrated inijthevaccom' panying drawings-in which.

Figure 1 is a front elevation ofa transla tor constructed inacbord'ance with my invention. u Fig. 2'is a top-plan and part sectio'nal view of the same? Fig. 3 is a view of certain permutation rack bars employed .in

- the device. Fig. {L is a vertical section on line xm of Fig. '2." Fig. 5 is a similar sec-.

.tion on line yy of tlie-saiie figure. Fig. 6 IS a section-on line z-z. F g. 7" sa {front elevation'of a modificationof the invention.

Fig. 8 is-a plan view and part longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 9.is an end view of the device Fig. 7, looking toward the p left. -Fig. 10 is a similar view looking toof another modification. plan view of a portion of the same shown.

. ward the right. Figfll is a side elevation, Fig. 12 isfa 'f-OP 1 I i which necessitates the s multaneous temple as part of a diagram illustrating the means tor opera ting the same hy a transmission c1reu 1t';and Fig. 13 is a general diagram of circuit connections showing the relations of the translator to the line. and to the re ceiving instrument. I

Referring'to Figs. 1 to 6 inclusive, the instrument illustratedthereby is, in the main, of the-same construction as that made the subject of my prior Patent No. 1,090,367,

above referred to. The operative portions] of the device are mounted on a base plate 1,

-. having tit-'0 rigid side plate 2 and 3, across which eXt-end,in front,'an angle barat and in the rear a bar or plate 5. The bar 6,

which also-extends along the base plate in front, contains two groups of equi-distant slots or saw-cuts, in which the ends of two series of levers '7 and 8 are pivoted, the

upper ends of said levers extending thron slots in the angle bar 4, as shown in Fig. l.

To each of the leyers '7 and 8 a spiral spring 9, secured at its opposite end to a crossbar 1O, is connected and operates to hold its lever in engagement with amay able cross bar 11., designed to normally limit the forward movement ot the lever.

Extendmg across the'device and sliding in suitable openings in the side plates 2 and 3', is a series or pile of six an bars .12, which have .the following special conformation.-

'At its, right hand end each bar has a projection 13 slotted to recei've'a steel Wire spring Msecured to-the base plate 1, and which tends to. hold the bar in proper alineinent and foi'ceit toward the left. Each barcontains notches 1.5 at regular intervals and in position such that when" one or more bars areshifted to the right one of a series of pivoted levers 16 will come forward and enter a vertical row of registering notches and lock tl' e shifted bar or bars in such position. The left handends of the bars which project beyond the plate 3 are spread, as shown in Fig. 1, to en'gage with arorre s ending so ies' of levers 17, the nature and "pose of whichwill'be described later.

1 sally, each earll along its forward edge contains onone side of its center, a series of notches which occupy different positions in the respective cars, and on the other side of the center a single extended notch, so that in the normal. position of the pile or group I of bars none of the levers 7 or 8 may be shifted thrt h its full operative are, but when any Oil-.5 or PAL"? of the bars are shifted 116 the right a pro- 3 eterznined distance, certain notches in the three upper bars to the left of the center, or in the three lo bars tothe right of the center, or'in both bars. will coincide and permit the correspondingly placed lever 7 or S to be drawn forward to its full extent, forcing a spring 2 contact 423 into engagement with a fixed terminal @2. In other Wo ds, the bars, consti signatcd l9 constituting another; the shift.-

nig or releasing magnet 2Q.andthe inter-' mediate mechanism lliiistrated in Figs. 1, 2 and o. The selecting magnets are arranged a in any convenient manner so that the armature lover of each may engage one of a relaone of the levels 7 v series of pins 21, engaging levers 17-. The.-

said levers 17 are normally held out of'the path of the pern'iutat-ion bars by means of light springs 22, but when any of the selecting magnets is energized and its corresponding pini l forced forward, lever 17, which. is engaged thereby, is turned to bring its end into the path of its corresponding permutation bar, and is retained in such-position by one of a series ofspring-actuatcd latches 23, see Fig.- 2, pivoted to a stationary portion of the, frame; I v

The'magnet 20, preferablyin the form of a solenoid, is provided with armaturecores secured to a yoke "Acarried by the endof -a reciprocatingiod mounted in suitable fixed hearings in the frame of the machine: The said rod is pivotally-connected with a lever 26, the opposite end of which pivoted to a block 27,- carrying the lever 17.

\Vhen magnet 2-0 is energized the lever 4 is rocked about its pivotal support and the block 27 forced to the right, carrying the levers 17 with'it, but only such of these levers as havebeen tilted by the selecting magnets and are retained by the latches 23 will engage with the permutation bars.

y In the rear of the instrument is amagnet-- or solenoid 28, the cores of which are secured to a yoke'to which is pivotally connectcd a bell crank lever'32, mounted '1 a stud securcd'to the bar 5, and through'such connection to the bar 11 by means 01" the connecting rod 33. Thebar 11 is supported upon a rock shaft 3% by arms 35, and is held in its normal oinforward position by an arm or latch 36 extending from a rock shaft .37. The bar 11 is forced in this position, if not already in it, by the operation of magnet 28, and released and permitted to swing back through a limited arc by-any suitable device. I crank le er 38, Fig. 6, pivoted to plate One arm of the said lever is connected with a sliding rod 39havinga connection, with 'PTOViS-iOfi for lost motion, with the armature of magnet 20, and by the reciprocation of oscillated, bringing its other end said ro is into engagement with andlifting an arm 40 For this purpose I employ bellrigid. with the rock shaft 37. This movemerit of the lever 38 thus engages the latch or arm 36, frees bar 11 and permits. the latter to swing back through an arc sufficient to permit the levers 7 and 8 to complete a full swing when not opposed by the permutation bars.

For an understanding of the operation of the apparatus and for such other details of construction as have not been specifically 'dGSCI'lbGd, reference is made to the diagram Fi fihaye' already explained that the funchowever it re uir-es that current im ulses 3 be introduced to it through nine different paths, seven of which may be designated as line controlled circuits and which are as follows, viz., the six paths including the se lecting magnets and another including a special magnet 41 which has to do with a certain operation of the printing mechanism and will be more fully hereinafter described, and two other paths,,one of which is a re ceiver controlled circuit, including the magnet 28, and the other a circuit controlled by the sunflower and including the magnet 20. In practice, the current impulses, with the exception of those for energizing the clearing magnet 28 and the releasing i'nagnet 20, are derived from the segments of a sun flower disk at the receiving station which distributes the line impulses to the proper translator circuits to bring about the op'eration of the receiver which corresponds to the particulargroup of impulses transmitted. 'To simplify the explanation of operation and at the same time describe more in detail certain features of construction which have been referred to in somewhat general terms, the operations accompanying the transmission of certain signals or g oups of impulses will be followed.

Assume that the segments of the ieceiviag sunflower, which instrument may be of any ordinary kind, but which I have specifically described in application filed by me on January 22nd, 1913, Serial No. 743,512. are connected respectively to terminals 44 to 51, and that a signal transmitted over the line consists of but two impulses, the first of which starts the sunflower in operation, the second being delivered to terminal 48. This latter impulse energizes one of the magnets 18, with the result that the lever 17 corresponding to that magnet is brought into the path of one of the permutation bars and there retained by a latch 23. By the movement of the sunflower the circuit including magnet 20 is energized at the proper moment. The action of this magnet is followed by two operations; the lever 26 is forced to the left and the block 27 shifted to the right so that the locked lever 17 engages with one of the permutation bars and shifts it to the right where it is engaged by one of the latches 16 and locked. Another operation is the release of the latch 36 through the instrumentality of the connecting rod 39, the lever 38 and the arm 10, which results in the cross-bar 11 being retracted. This permits one of the levers 7 to come forward and enter the registering notches in the pile of bars 12 and close, through its appropri ate contact 42, one of the circuits 52 to (34. of the receiver. For the purpose of illustration, it may be assumed that this is the receiver circuit which turns the type wheel one, two or more steps, each of which in cludes two vertical columns of characters, and brings into operation the printing and letter spacing devices. Each of such operations of the receiving instrument com pletes, as its final step, a circuit to the trans lator terminal 65, which includes the mag net 28, and by the operation of this magni-t the bell-crank lOVQl 32 is rocked, the cross bar 11 is forced forward carrying with it the levers 7 and 8 and the permutation bars restored to their normal position by means of the mechanism illustrated in Figs. 1, i and 6, this apparatus being the same as that employed in the translator of my pending application No. 743,511. This mechanism consists of a pivotedlever 66, one end of which is engaged by a projection extending from the armature core ot the magnet 28 and operating to lift a rod (37 carrying stops, one of which engages the bar 68 connecting the ends of two bell crank levers 59 pivoted to the frame. The other ends are connected by a. rod 70, the whole constituting a rocking frame, and when the magnet 28 is energized and the rod 67 raised, the bar 70 engages the latch levers 16 and releases whatever permutation bars may have been shifted to the right, whereupon said bars are shifted back to normal position by the springs 14.

In like manner assume that an impulse of current over the linc'is delivered to a ter minal 44 of the translator, which includes one of the selecting magnets 19. Then by the same series of operations one of the levers 8 will be operated and that circuitof the receiver closed, which lifts the type wheel one or more steps and effects the other operations already described, as is more fully set forth in my application filed December 9th, 1912, Serial No. 735,682.

In like nmrmer impulses of any one series or group constituting a signal may be delivered to two or all of the selecting magnets of either group, or to none of the magative adjustment of the bars 12 may be secured. But in order that the bars, when displaced by their respective magnets, may be maintained in the positions to which they are shifted, each armature lever is provided with a contact 85 which, on the initial move ment of the armature. closes a circuit through the magnet itself which maintains the latter energized until the operation for which the adjustment of the bars is made is completed. In illustration of this operation the diagram of Fig. 12 may be referred to. In this diagram 89 represents the sunflower, through the segments of which impulses of ci-u'rent are distributed to the several magnets 18 and 19. 'hen any magnet is energized by an impulse of current from the line its circuit closer 88 coming in contact with a fixed stop 90 closesa circuit from the ground through battery 91, the cam contacts 93 of the circuit controller, which are normally closed during the rotation of that instrument, through the wire 92, the stop 90, the contact 88 through the coils of the magnet to ground.

A special feature of great value may be secured by this arrangement, namely, the capacity of the device for storing signals. It will be observed that while the line impulses that'energize the magnets 18 and 19 are practically instantaneous, the magnets themselves will remain energized as long as the path 92 is COIl'lPlGiOd. If, therefore. the circuit controllers 88 be composed of yielding springs and arranged to make contact immediately upon the movement of the armature levers, each magnet will remain energized whatever the position of the permutation bars 12. It may happen, therefore, that a signal is transmitted over the line before the operations attendant upon the preceding signal have been completed or the permutation bars restored to normal position, In such case the signal will be stored by the selecting magnets and transmitted to the receiving apparatus immediately upon the restoration of the-bars 12 to their normal position.

lVith regard to that feature of improve, ment which involves the combination of two sets of permutation bars and selecting magnets, it should be understood that in the prior art, the counterpart of such bars is found in corresponding elements of widely different form, suchas plates and disks, and

that my present invention is not limited to- Q the specific bars shown.

What I claim is: p,

1. In a translator for printing telegraph systems, the combination with a series of receiver controlling circuits and a series of line controlled circuits, of two groups or sets of contacts, each adapted to complete a receiver. controlling ciicuit and electromagnetically controlled selecting mechanism for each set of contacts, connected with the line contacts for both sets, and two sets of selecting magnets connected with the line controlled circuits for determining the contact of either or both sets so operated according to the signal transmitted over the line.

3. In a translator for printing telegraph systems, the combination with a series of receiver controlling circuits and a series of line controlled circuits, of two sets or groups of contact levers, each of which controls a receiver circuit, a set of shiftable permutation bars for each set of contact levers, normally restraining all of said lovers from operation, and selecting magnets included in line controlled circuits for determining the particular bar or bars of one or both sets to be shifted to permit the operationof. a contact lever in either or both sets corresponding to the signal transmitted over the line.

4. In a translator for printing telegraph systems, the combination with a series ofreceiver controlling circuits and two sets of oscillating contact levers for controlling the same, of a series of notched permutation bars for each set of contact levers and cooperating therewith, means for shifting one 'or more or all of the bars of either or both series to bring notches into 'alinement at different points, a series of line controlled circults, electromagnets therein and means operated thereby for selecting the bar or bars of either or both series to be shifted.

5. In a translator for printing telegraph systems, the combination of two sets of contact levers, a series of notched permutation bars for each set, adapted to be shifted to bring the notches into alinement at different points and selecting magnets for determining the bar or bars of each series to be shifted, according to the character of the signal transmitted over the line.

6. In a translator for printing telegraph systems, the combination with a frame, of two sets of contact levers pivoted along op posite sides of the same, a series of notched permutation bars for each set of contact overs adapted to be shifted to bring the notches into alinement at different points, and selecting magnets for each series of bars for determining the bar or bars of either or both series to be shifted. I

7. In a translator for printing telegraph systems, the combination with a series of 'receiver controlling circuits and a, series of line controlled circuits, of contacts for compleating the receiver controlling circuits, selooting rncuns for determining the contact or ontscts to be operated according to the nature oi" the signal transmitted over the line, a magnet adapted when energized to complete a rwzeivcr coi'i'trolling circuit, the (l magn t having two windings, one in n 1e controlled circuit and the other in a receiver controlled circuit completed by the operation of the magnet in response to an impulse received from the line.

In a translator for printing telegraph systems, the combination with :1 series oi"; receiver controlling circuits and series of line controlled circuits, of a series of permutation bars, Contact levers lnr compi ting the receiver controlling circiints, sclecti'v'ely controlled by said bars, selecting magnets in the line controlled circuits and min atures therefor, adapted to engage with and shift the permutation bars according to the signals transmitted over the line.

9. In a translator for printing telegraph systems, the combination with a series of receiver controlling circuits and a series of line controlled ClTCilltS, of a series of per" nmtation bars, contact levers for completing the receiver controlling circuits, selectively controlled by said lJfli'S, selecting magnets in line controlled circuits, nrmatures therefor adapted to engage with and shift the per-mirtation bars according to the signals transmitted over the line, and circuit controllers adapted when operated by the selecting magnets in response to impulses received from the line to prol Up; the flow of current through said magnets until the completion of a signal.

in testimony whereof I my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN E. NRIGHT. 

